Device for removing bottle-caps.



DEVICE FOR REMOVING BOTTLE GAPS.

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 9, 1909.

Patented Nov. 30, 1909.

G-Houwt 40 panying drawings,' which with the letters of UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES EFORSYTH, or WASHINGTON, msrmcr or COLUMBIA, mm FRANCIS c.- WALLACE, or DRUMMOND, MARYLAND.

- DEVICE FOR REMO VTNG BOTTLE-CAPS.

' specincationot lettera Patent. Patented Nov. 30, Application filed October 9, 1909. Serial No. 621,965.

To all it may concern.

-Be it known that we, CHARLES F. FoRsYTH and FRANCIS C. WALLACE, citizens of the United States, residing at vWashington, Dis-' trictof Columbia, and Drummond, Montgomery county, Maryland, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Removin Bottle Caps; and we do hereb declare the ollowing to be a .full, clear, an exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the ac companyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. 1

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in devices for use in removing caps from beer and other bottles, and it has for this object among othersthe provision of a simple and inexpensive'device of this character so constructed as to permit of its being quickly and, easily sprung over and locked to a bottle cap in such a manner as to secure a permanent locking of the device to the bottle cap where, it will serve as a means for quickl cap from the bott c When desired.

, The invention has .for an essential object the provision of a deviceof this character whic the bottle cap may be removed, upon account of its cheapness of construction is:

designed to remainpermanently locked to the cap and be thrown away with it when it is removed from the bottle.

To these ends and to such others as the invention may pertain, thesame consists in thevnovel construction of the device as will be fully descrlbed and shown in the accomreference marked thereon, form a part-of this specification and in-which draw ngs Fi re 1 is a view of a bottle neck pro vide with a metallic cap with our device shown as locked thereto.

' section. Fig. 3 is a top plan view, andFi 4 iii a perspective viewof the device detache erence now being had to the details of I the drawings by letter, A re resents the device which'is made of a sing e piece or casting, the top portion B having depending therefrom arms C and D. Said arms are .provided upon their free ends with hooks C 6.5

and D, said hooks being adapted to engage and easily detaching the while serving as a means whereby the form of handle. ma specific form of the ban is employed in op- Fig .2 is a central we claim to be new and deslre to secure by the lower ed s of the riphery of theser-v ratedflange edges 0 the cap, upon the opposite side thereof. The arm (1 which is provided at one end of the device and extending'downwardly at an inclination corresponding with the flange of the bottle cap is, at the point E, made thinner than the. top or body portion B. On the inner face of the downwardly extending arm I) is provided an angular lu F, said lug cor-. responding in size an shape with the size and she. e of the notches between the serrations (gr upon the outer edges of the bottle cap, thus insuring a means for securely looking the deviceto the cap and preventing its being acoidentallylaterally displaced. The up r portion B of thedevice extendsat one end a short distance beyond the edge of the bottle neck when the device is locked to the cap, thus providing a handle for use in removing. the cap from the bottle.

The operation of the devicefrom the fore going description will be readily understood.

When the bottle has been capped the de vice is secured to the cap by? engaging the hook C- beneath the cap, then by forcing the device: downward, the hook D at thelower end of the arm D will engage the lower edge of the cap upon the opposite side thereof, the thin portion of the device adjacent to the end at which the arm 0 is attached, per mitting the device to spring securely into place and when the device-has thus been sprun over the cap, the lug F will engage oneo the serrations in the edge of the cap and thus prevent the device from being accidentally laterally detached.

While we have shown the device as vided with a handle consisting merely. otan extended portion of the upper or body por-' tion of the device, it is at once evident that be varied as the crating the device in removing the bottle ca s is not considered to be material.

aving thus described our invention, what Letters Patent is 1. A device for removing bottle caps, the same being adapted to engage and be permanently locked to a bottle ca ,substantially 'as shown and described and or the purpose specified.

' 2.'A device for removing bottle ca s, the same being adapted to ,engage a bott e cap and be automatically locked thereto, subedge of a bottle cap, 3. lug or extension upon 15 stantially as shown and described and for one of the arms to engagea de ression in the the pur ose specified. periphery of the cap, and a handle for re- 3. A ottle cap remover comprisingina moving the cap, substantially as shown and single element a body portion, depending described and or the purpose specified.

7 arms provided at their free lower ends with In testimony whereof we hereunto aflixed 2o inwardly disposed hooks and having upon our signatures in the presence of two witthe inner face of one of the arms a hook nesses.

adapted'to engage a de ression upon the pe- CHAS. R FORSYTH.

riphery of the cap su stantially as shown and described and for the purpose specified. FRANCIS WALLACE Y 4. A bottle ca remover comprising a body Witnesses: portion, depen ing arms having inwardly FRANKLIN H. HOUGH, extended hook portions to engage the lower ROBERT A. BOSWELL. 

